Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part One From Economics to Science Studies -- Introduction: Cracks, Hidden Passageways, and False Bottoms: The Economics of Science and Social Studies of Economics -- 1 Confessions of an Aging Enfant Terrible -- Part Two Science as an Economic Phenomenon -- 2 On...

Introduction: Paradigms, Hard Cores, and Fuglemen in Modern Economic Theory -- Reconceptualizing Classical Economics -- Property Appropriation and Economic Theory -- Time and Equilibrium -- The Role of Formalism in Economic Thought, with Illustration Drawn from the Analysis of Social Interaction...

In writings about the history of the use of mathematical expression in economics, there seems to be a conviction that the movement towards its current flowering was cumulative, inevitable, and indeed, natural. While, such notions are widely held among practicing economists, I want to argue that...